From: Panthera | #014
This post makes no sense. You just completely contradicted yourself. Either you can or you can't have a character with a mythological name that doesn't act like their mythological counterpoint.
You missed the point. Here, walkthrough time:
I) Good Writing.
A) You have a Gilgamesh in a cyberpunk setting.
B) This Gilgamesh is the leader of a megacorp, Uruk. Tons of people depend on him and worship and revere him almost like a god.
C) Gilgamesh one day meets a young revolutionary named Enkidu. With Enkidu's help, he survives an assassination attempt from Ishtar, leader of another corp.
D) Suddenly afraid of his own mortality, Gilgamesh begins to pursue ways to transcend his body. On his quest, Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh loses his only chance at immortality, and is forced to come to terms with the fact that one day he will die. His tale finishes on a sober note, with Gilgamesh wiser and more mature than he was when his story began.
II) Good Writing:
A) You have a Gilgamesh in a cyberpunk setting.
B) This Gilgamesh is a freedom-fighting lone wolf, warring against the domineering Chimeratech Corp because of them turning him into a cybernetic freak and killing his sister.
C) The story proceeds from here until Gilgamesh brings Chimeratech down.
III) Bad Writing:
A) You have a Gilgamesh in a cyberpunk setting.
B) This Gilgamesh is the leader of a megacorp, Uruk. Tons of people depend on him and worship and revere him almost like a god.
C) Gilgamesh one day meets a young revolutionary named Enkidu.
D) Enkidu then becomes sidelined as Gilgamesh uncovers a dark secret and decides to become a freedom-fighting lone wolf, warring against the domineering Chimeratech Corp. We get a few flashbacks that reveal they turned him into a cybernetic freak and killed his sister forty years ago.
See the difference here? One story borrows from the myth to reinforce its narrative. Another story doesn't and simply uses a name. The third story brings in mythic elements and then does nothing with them. This is something you don't do unless you're a hack. No inconsistencies here.
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